Even years after the end of the Great Recession, thousands who lost their jobs are still unemployed. Victor Tan Chen (Virginia Commonwealth University) in his book, Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy, offers a poignant look at their struggle to support their families, rebuild their lives, and overcome shame and self-blame. Also: After working for Bernie Madoff for 15 years, Andrew Cohen (Old Dominion University) was offered a chance to invest in a “special fund” that Madoff himself managed. You can guess what happened. Now he warns his own students about the pitfalls in his course “Wall Street 101.”

Later in the show, There’s a small town in Idaho where prostitution was practiced openly and even embraced, until 1991. Heather Branstetter has been interviewing local residents, discovering who the madams were and what they did to cultivate widespread public acceptance of their work. Plus: If you’ve ever had a coworker write nasty or demeaning emails, undermine your credibility, or give you the silent treatment, you’ve experienced workplace incivility. Dan Davidson and Danylle Kunkel (Radford University) say it affects the bottom line and should be included in performance reviews.